![]() ![]() That was one incident, but there were so many others on the road that led Seger to write that song. All these local guys were looking at us like, "What are these guys? Is that a woman or a man?" – just like in the song. At this restaurant it was particularly bright inside, so there weren't any dark corners to hide in. We stood out when we entered a store or a gas station or a restaurant en masse. I think we were in Dubuque, Iowa, in winter and stopped at a restaurant. "Turn the Page," Bob's great road song, came along in '72, while we were driving home from a gig. Tom Weschler, then road manager for Seger, remembers the same incident: He played it on acoustic guitar, and there was that line: "Oh, the same old cliches / 'Is that a woman or a man?' " It was "Turn the Page." – Seger says, "Hey, I've been working on this song for a bit, I've got this new line for it. That next night, after we played our gig – I think it was Mitchell, S.D. When I walked in, there was this gauntlet of truckers making comments – "Is that a girl or man?" I was seething those guys were laughing their asses off, a big funny joke. You had to be careful out on the road like that, because you'd get ostracized. ![]() We all had very long hair back then – it was the hippie era – but Skip, Mike and Bob had all stuffed their hair up in their hats. He was slowing down to exit the interstate and spied a truck stop. We'd been traveling all night from the Detroit area to make this gig, driving in this blinding snowstorm. We had been playing somewhere in the Midwest, or the northern reaches, on our way to North or South Dakota. Drummer David Teegarden (of Teegarden & Van Winkle and later the Silver Bullet Band) recalls: Seger wrote it in 1972 while touring with Teegarden & Van Winkle. "Turn the Page" is about the emotional and social ups and downs of a rock musician's life on the road. The song became a mainstay of album-oriented rock radio stations, and still gets significant airplay on classic rock stations. It was not released as a single until Seger's live version of the song on the 1976 Live Bullet album got released in Germany and the UK. ![]() " Turn the Page" is a song originally recorded by Bob Seger in 1971 and released on his Back in '72 album in 1973. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |